Cutting Edge Modelworks

1/48 U-2/ER-2 Dragon Lady decal sheet

Product # CED48276 for $15.99

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Mar 1  2006

 

 

 

This new decal sheet from Cutting Edge Modelworks includes markings for 11 different U-2 and ER-2's. 

The U-2's on this sheet cover am variety of paint schemes from the single seater versions to the 2 seat versions flown by NACA, NASA, USAF and the CIA. 

The recommended kit for these markings is the Testors U-2C with the Cutting Edge U-2A conversion or the Cutting Edge U-2CT conversion. 

Special credit goes to Tony Landis for his effort to make this decal sheet possible.

Other items available from Cutting Edge Modelworks include:

CEC48104 U-2R/S/TR-1A Senior Span, Senior Spear & Senior Ruby Conversion set

CEC48106 U-2R/S/TR-1A ASARS II Nose Conversion

CEC48287 U-2A Conversion For Testors U-2C kit. Includes flat spine, rear fuselage, and adapter pieces for the smaller intakes. Note this set REQUIRES the use of set CEC48293, U-2A Seamless Intakes for the intake parts themselves.

CEC48288 U-2A/C Super Detailed Cockpit for Hawk/Testors

CEC48289 U-2A/C B Camera Q-Bay Cover (includes BlackMagic(tm) masks for camera windows!

CEC48290 U-2E/F (Ram's Horns) Conversion

CEC48292 U-2A-F Airframe Conversion (short spine radome ("canoe"), landing gear struts & wheel well, air brakes & wells, U-2C wing inserts, trapezoid & other antennas) for Hawk U-2A, Testors U-2C, and other Cutting Edge conversions for the early U-2s

CEC48293 U-2A Seamless Intakes

CEC48294 U-2C Coke Bottle Seamless Intakes

CEC48298 U-2A/C Exhaust & Rear Wheel Well

CEC48299 U-2C Interim Seamless Intakes-applicable to ALL U-2Cs before 1965, therefore Francis Gary Powers, Cuba overflights, etc!  These intakes are significantly different from the coke bottle intakes provided in the Testors kit.

CEC48318 U-2A HASP Conversion (nose & side scoop)

CEC48325 U-2C Flat Spine Conversion. All U-2Cs were built with the flat spine; the long dorsal canoewas not installed until late 1965.

CEC48409 U-2R/U-2S/TR-1A Super Detailed Cockpit for Testors/Italeri. Note this cockpit is applicable to all TR-1As, U-2Rs, and U-2Ss up to the U-2S RAMP upgrade (the RAMP configuration is a possible future cockpit set). This set is NOT applicable to the earlier U-2s (U-2A, U-2C, U-2D, U-2E, U-2F; see CEC48288 for those versions).

CEC48414 U-2R/U-2S/TR-1 Ejection Seat WITHOUT Seatbelts

CEC48441 U-2R/S & TR-1A Dropped Flaps, Open Spoilers, & ECM Bumps Set for Italeri/Testors

CEC48442 U-2R/S & TR-1A Seamless Intakes & Forward Landing Gear Bay for Italeri/Testors

CEC48443 U-2R/S & TR-1A Exhaust Nozzle & Aft Landing Gear Bay for Italeri/Testors

CEC48489 U-2R correct horizontal Stabilizers,  this set provides left and right stabilizers with many small external "wing fence" stiffeners applied top and bottom to the original U-2R production batch.  The Testors/Italeri kit supplies stabilizers with the stiffeners on one side only.  Note that on the later U-2R (TR-1A) production, these stiffeners, were internal and will not show on a model from that production batch. 

CEC48490 U-2CT (U-2C(T) Conversion for Italeri U-2C.  This set adds the second cockpit of the U-2CT to the Testors U-2C kit.  This set does NOT fit the Hawk U-2A or testors U-2R/TR-1 kits.  Full airframe conversion, cockpit interior and ejection seat, and new clear resin canopy are included.

The instructions are clear and include colour drawings to assist in decal placement and painting.  There is a page of text including information about jets featured on this sheet. 

A great decal sheet for this historic jet.

 

Click on images below to see larger images of the instruction sheets

I would like to thank Cutting Edge Modelworks for providing me with this review sample.

Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford